Edmund Storms wrote: >It depends on what you mean by relationship. Both hot and cold fusion >produce the same end products, but in different ratios.
The helium-to-heat ratio is the same for both, as far as I know. I do not know of any study that shows a different ratio, although of course the error bars are very large. (However, I took your suggestion that I drop that comparison in the article I was writing.) >The reactions in >each case involve the fusion of deuterium. However, the two process are >completely different in the mechanism that allows the fusion to occur. Why do you say that? Of course the conditions are different, but do we have any proof that the mechanism is completely different? Going back to Tinsley, 18th century scientists must have been astounded to learn that metabolism has fundamentally the same mechanism as combustion (oxidation). It sure didn't look the same. The differences are all due to the environment. >As a result, saying that a relationship exists between hot and cold >fusion has no meaning because the only relationship that exists is trivial. I do not think that has been established yet. That German researcher whose name always escapes me has found evidence that plasma fusion at low temperature looks more like cold fusion than previously thought. A plasma focus device is known to produce a fusion reaction, but Rout et al. showed that it produces a much bigger one than expected with Ti. This seems like a hybrid hot fusion plus cold fusion reaction. See: http://www.lenr-canr.org/Experiments.htm#AutoradiographsMSrinivasan - Jed
